a custom round dining table with 3 leaves

 

 we delivered this one recently

here it is on site

it is a 60" round with three 15" leaves, in cherry,

with an ebony and maple burl edge inlay ..

this photo shows the layout on the bottom of the table,

runners, stiffeners, and apron attachments.

the leaves, in the end, had center stiffeners not attached yet here

with the base and sub top attached

an ancestor of this table that we first made back

in about 2015 ,,,

cad and cut list

seating layout

a spalted maple breakfast table

 

 

we recently sent this spalted maple breakfast table off to its new home in florida

it is about 27 x 62 and features one of our waterjet cut 

solid steel bases ... 

 

 

we made a quick mdf mockup on the cnc, got the client's approval

                                    and sent the file off to mainly metals in bristol, vt to be cut

the slab had been a coffee table that i made for a show, but when the client came to visit he decided it would make a perfect breakfast table for his banquet

good to go

is it october already?

 well, here we are.  it's fall, and i see i haven't written anything since

the middle of the summer ... it might have something to do with the weather 

and my golf and paddle tennis schedule .. lots of both, 

but still Kristian and i are still getting lots of stuff out the door ... 

below is a quick review of the last couple months ...

shortly after we completed the live edge table in the previous post,

the clients came with another slab from berkshire products, and another idea

the slab itself had some unusual bug damaged sections that the clients liked

that we decide to incorporate into the base for the breakfast table

a bit of a challenge, but successful we thought in the end

 

and, next up, a 60" round cherry table with three 15" leaves

a little flare on the inlay from the sunlight coming in the door

we have made this design many times in the past, but this is 

the first time we made it with a moveable base as the table opens

in some ways simpler, and more stable

a little 'burl and bars' edge inlay to dress it up a bit

coincidentally, this remodel was to a house that we made furniture for

when this dining room was added on about 20 years ago ... those clients have 

taken their furniture, and moved 'downtown' to the center of dorset ...

next we squeezed in some smaller things ... 

a couple of bedside tables ...

cherry and curly maple, part of a series of smaller tables shown on our website

upper left corner there

and then a reclaimed chestnut 'kitchen desk'

legs and color to match a dining table that we made in 2007

 in the adjacent room 

and below is one we finished last week 

a spalted maple breakfast table, that at one time was a coffee table 

that we made for a show and had managed to return to my office

where this client spotted it and had us make it into table for

a banquet in his new florida home.

solid 1" steel wishbone base waterjetted by mainly metals in bristol, vermont 

and sanded and drilled, tapped and polished by kritsian

 

and finally, this base for a super bronze eagle sculpture by 

walt matia, of curlew castings in maryland ... walt is sort of

world famous sculptor who has been a friend and fellow artist

since the early 80's

a couple of challenges:

* it had to be rugged as the sculpture weighs 150-200 pounds

* the inside had to accessible to bolt it to the floor on site and to bolt the sculpture to the base

* it had to be dark and 'not too shiny'

 

the sculpture this base will hold will a 'cut down' edition of this one

a photo shopped 'installation

if you've been to houston, you may have seen some of his bulls at the stadium there

 

i am sure i have missed a couple of other projects, but it is sunday

and time to go do some pottery ...

a live edge table

 we delivered this interesting live edge table a few weeks ago 

it was made from a bookmatched pair of slabs from berkshire products

the clients decided to use the extra length on the slabs for the base and 

i had some spalted maple on hand from a previous project. 

the table was 8' long, and the slabs were almost 11'

straighteneing and gluing the pair of 20 " wide 

8' slabs was a bit of a wrestling match

but we got it eventually

all in, all done ... the clients were happy and aactually went back to berkshire and 

purchased another slab for their breakfast area ... one good deed leads to another

some more ladderbacks

 we delivered this table to the clients in december of 2016,

and they recently ordered 6 of our ladderback chairs to go with it ... 

fortunately, we made 6 of these recently in novemeber of 2020, 

and we still remembered how

essentially, you start with a bunch of walnut,

make some parts, fire up the cnc and have at it.

over the  years we have made several hundred of these

and we recently converted the files from our old cad/cam

to our new program ... tricky, but, manageable

at some point in the past, we decided to make the mdf seat blanks

which are way faster and way stronger than individual glue blocks

in the corners .. dominoed, glued, pocket screwed, and added

as the front legs and stretchers are glued to the back leg assemblies.

male up some seat blanks for the leather and drop them off at

bespoke upholstery in manchester, vermont. and 

we're all set ... off to see the wizard ... 

slide shows june 15th 2021

here is a link to the updated slide show page on my blog

that link will take you to a page on my blog where there 

are 18 separate slide shows, some with over a hundred photos in them, 

 

that you can click throughto see work completed from 2009 to 2017 

 

as well as images from mypre blog portfolios. ... maybe 50 live edge tables,

 

 our cnc work, etc. ...  ... if when you click on an individual image

to enlarge it, it seems small, try hitting control plus until the image

seems the right size.  the images should stay that size as you click through them.

 

i lost access to these slide shows when google discontinued picasa in 2018,

but thanks to my computer guru, dean darling, they are now back in action ...

some of the slideshows, like the dining tables, have non working links in the 

lower left corner relating to a blog post about that particular table 

the links don't actually work, they tell you the date of the blog post 

or what to enter in the search box, which is on the home page of the blog

 

ENJOY!  lots to see here ...

 

181 photos in this one

67 photos

192 photos

204 pictures

192 photos

160 photos

wow! 292 photos in this one

248 items

209 photos here

130

132 photos

246 pictures

129 items

181
 

85 photos ... i've got another 50 or so to add, plus i need to make slideshows 

for 2018,19, and 20, and go back and visit 2007 and 2008 .... 

it's kind of hard to believe we did all this stuff ...